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Painting

Composition VIII

Wassily Kandinsky

Circles, grids, and a black sun, organized like a score. Painted at the Bauhaus.

Artist
Wassily Kandinsky
Date
1923
Medium
Oil on canvas
Movement
Modern
Origin
Russia
Where it is
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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